regex - Perl one liner to remove comments, removes lines which are not comments also -
i using perl 1 liner remove comments from c file, removes lines have asterik(*) in between words, eg static void * here in 1 liner using: 'perl -0777 -pe ''s{/\*.*?\*/}{}gs'' ' sourcefile ' > ' destfile could please suggest? thanks this question answered in perlfaq. "how use regular expression strip c style comments file?" http://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.9/perlfaq6.html#how-do-i-use-a-regular-expression-to-strip-c-style-comments-from-a-file ?